Legends of the Northwest, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4, sentence 105
To the face of our Grandfather stretch out your hand; Holding a quadruped, stretch out your hand!
Who acts: you · What happens: stretch out, hold · To what, where: hand, quadruped
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Feast of the Virgins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 face | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 face | det |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretch | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Grandfather | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | nmod |
| 7 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 stretch | compound:prt |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretch | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Holding | punct |
| 12 | Holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stretch | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quadruped | det |
| 14 | quadruped | quadruped | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Holding | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretch | punct |
| 16 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 stretch | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stretch | compound:prt |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretch | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | imperative | you not said here | your hand | to the face of our Grandfather result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to face=Result | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | you not said here | a quadruped | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quadruped=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | infinitive | you not said here | your hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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